Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy distribution includes Squeak and Scratch. While these can be helpful educational tools for students which provides a gentle introduction to programming, it doesn’t have much use for others. The following instructions will remove both Squeak and Scratch from your Raspberry Pi (Raspbian distribution). It saves 92.7 MB and 1.15 MB respectively […]
Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy distribution includes Wolfram Language and Mathematica. While this can be helpful for students, it doesn’t have much use for others. The following instructions will remove both Wolfram and Mathematica from your Raspberry Pi (Raspbian distribution). It saves 658MB in Jessie. sudo apt-get remove wolfram-engine Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree […]
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Code: How to reboot TP-Link Router
TP-Link router may need to be occasionally rebooted as it sometimes hangs in my experience. Here is a script I developed long back to boot such errant server from command line: wget -qO- –user=admin –password=admin-password http://192.168.1.1/userRpm/SysRebootRpm.htm?Reboot=Reboot Notes: You will need wget installed on your system. You may need to change the IP Address and Password. […]
Each of the Source Code repositories come with a free tier but each has their own restrictions BitBucket from Atlassian is free for small team up to 5 users or you can self-host for up to 10 members for one time fee of 10$. With the free plan in cloud, you can have unlimited public […]
Silence of Linux (after rm -rf /* ) To be fair, rm -rf /* was taking way too long with several millions of files in deep hierarchy. So I ran Delete (Java based recursive File & Directory Delete Tool). Finally all data that could be deleted was deleted. I could’ve run shred, I could’ve run […]
Had an interesting experience. Our power blinked (rapid off and on) few times. Not only did SuKam UPS pass that through the power fluctuations but continued after power has stabilized. By the time I switched off the computer, the damage was done. It would only boot to Grub prompt. Used a SSD drive from another […]
WordPress Network was previously installed using WordPress Mu, which has since been discontinued. However since WordPress version 3, you can have more-or-less the same functionality using WordPress. A multisite network is your own version of WordPress.com where your users can create their own blog / sites on demand. You can restrict it so only you, […]
Installing LAMP on Raspberry Pi is very very simple. It takes a single line to execute on terminal / console.
Super simple command line note taking tool for tracking breadcrumb trail during application development… CNote is a super-simple command line based Note taking application which we use to track changes, take notes before signing-off etc. during development. It can be used on all variants of Unix, Linux and Mac OS. It’s power lies in quickly […]
Last August, LaCie announced its Wuala service was to close in November 2015, and now Barracuda has announced its Copy and CudaDrive services will close on 1 May 2016. Paying customers are no longer being charged, and all users have until that date to ensure they have copies of all their files in another location. […]